Last Day Jitters

As I type yet again, my children are in the midst of finishing up their school year finals. What a week it has been!!! My nerves are shot, my sleep pattern disrupted and the butterflies have taken up permanent residence in my stomach.

So far, so good with the preliminary results. DD has managed to get only one or two answers wrong on each exam. I knew she would. Between both my children, she has consistently done well in her studies since Kindergarten. She loves school.

DS has managed to do great too. Of course, it takes him longer and studying is harder and add to the fact that he needs to pass three of his subjects or there could be summer school. So far of the 3, he has passed with flying colors his Science final and his Social Studies final. He did way better than I anticipated. Heck, I think he even surprised himself with these spectacular exam grades. The one I am worried about (ILA), we have yet to get the grade. He took that exam on Wednesday along with Social Studies. That is why I am not sleeping and find myself tearing up at the thought that he could fail that subject. I tried averaging his marks and I "think" he was passing even before the exam took place. I rationalized that the teacher would have sent home forms or warnings or something to advise me that summer school could be looming. My last conference with the teacher was in April (almost 2 months ago) when she told me about these three subjects. If he did poorly on that exam, can he be retested? We get out next Friday so there is plenty of time. I would think I would have some time to prepare or enroll him in a summer program. For crying out loud, I don't even know where summer school is. This is keeping me up at night and causing me to lose focus during the day. I tell you, this week seemed to have lasted an eternity.

This morning I got a small ray of hope. DS's class is having a Pizza Party today and I brought in the lemonade, iced tea and I was up til 10:30 last night making homemade chocolate chip cookies. Well DS, DD and myself delivered them this morning to his classroom. His teacher, Mrs. C, told me how pleased she was with N's progress. I told her I was very proud and he was trying very hard since our teacher conference in April. She said it showed in him and his work. She told him to keep it up in 8th grade. I have been playing this out all morning. Surely she would know the ILA grade. She is his homeroom teacher after all. She easily could have asked the children to go back to the school yard in order to talk to me. I do know his ILA teacher was not in yet. She is an 8th grade teacher and the 8th grade was off today. So she was not in at 8 AM. Sigh...I can't believe I am now bringing this into my blog. Sorry if I have bored or confused you. This is just a small example of what is going round in my head at the moment. I will stop now and keep you posted about the grade. At this point, I will take a 70.

Yesterday after dinner, I sat with California Wine Sampler. I decided that it is soooooo close to a finish that I will do that til it is done. Well, because of my current state of chaos and mayhem, I am now going to have to frog some of the word "any". I started to unpick it last night but put it down before I ended up putting a hole in the linen. I will try to get to the unpicking today before I get the kids from school.

Tonight my plans are to veg out in a big lump on the sofa with a glass of wine and my stitching. After this week, I think I owe it to myself to just do nothing. Hopefully the butterflies will have disappeared by then. :)

Have a great day everyone!